>The higher the Plateau+Wall, the closer the siege engine has to be to land a
>payload behind said wall, and one thing siege engines want to be is "as far
>away from hostile missiles as possible, thanks so much". (Of course, with
>Vingan Mile-thrown javelins, *any* real world ancient siege engine would be
>well within range of hostile missiles, so be sure to put up mantlets around
>the siege engines).
Assuming a decent level of accuracy from the Vingians that's going to produce a high mortality rate among Lunar Engineers - they're not going to use fancy tricks like that against the average labouring soldier.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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